wrote A Short Happy Life, The Hemingway Hero, Exactly Like You (written with Coleman), and The World of Nick Adams. Hotchner's play Sweet Prince was produced off-Broadway in 1982, at the Theater Off-Park, starring Keir Dullea and Ian Abercrombie. Personal life and philanthropy With actor Paul Newman, a friend and neighbor, Hotchner founded Newman's Own, Inc in 1982. All profits from this line of food products and other ventures are donated to charities. In 1988, Hotchner and Newman co-founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a residential summer camp and year-round center for seriously ill children located in Ashford, Connecticut. The original camp was later expanded to become a number of other Hole in the Wall Camps at other locations in the U.S., Ireland, France, and beyond. By 2016, there were 30 camps and programs serving the needs of over 130,000 children and families around the world, as part of the SeriousFun Children's Network. Hotchner was honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Hotchner resided with his wife Virginia Kiser in Westport, Connecticut, where he spent most weekends, and cared for a grey parrot. He was known for his collection of birds, and, outside his home in Westport, he had five peacocks. He loved to teach the kids on his road about the different birds and would sit and look at them often. He died on February 15, 2020, at the age of 102. Partial bibliography The Boyhood Memoirs of A. E. Hotchner: King of the Hill and Looking for Miracles (Missouri History Museum Press, 2007, ) The Dangerous American (Random House, 1958) Papa Hemingway (Random House, 1966) Treasure (Random House, 1970) King of the Hill (Harper & Row, 1973, ) Looking for Miracles: A Memoir about Loving (Harper & Row, 1975, ) Doris Day, Her Own Story (G. K. Hall, 1976, ) Sophia, Living and Loving : Her Own Story (Morrow, 1979, ) The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (Putnam, 1981, ) Papa Hemingway : The Ecstasy and Sorrow (Morrow, 1983, ) Choice People : The Greats, Near-Greats, and Ingrates I Have Known (Morrow, 1984, ) Hemingway and His World (Vendome, 1989, ) Blown Away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties (Simon & Schuster, 1990, ) Louisiana Purchase (Carroll & Graf, 1996, ) The Day I Fired Alan Ladd and Other World War II Adventures (U. of Missouri Press, 2002,